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Ultimate chocolate cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Plus time for cooling and decorating
- More effort
- Makes Cake
Ingredients
- 170g butter
- 170g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 170g flour
- As much cocoa powder as you want
- 1-2 dashes of milk
For the topping
- Cocoa powder
- 170g icing sugar
- As much water as you need
- All the sweets/chocolate you like
Method
- STEP 1Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C. Grease the tin that the cake is going into.
- STEP 2In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until smooth.
- STEP 3Add the eggs one by one and beat into the mixture. (It will look weird but don't worry about it)
- STEP 4Add the flour into the mix bit by bit.
- STEP 5Beat in the cocoa powder until it is as chocolaty as you want. Add the milk until smooth.
- STEP 6Put into a tin and smooth out.
- STEP 7Put into the oven for 15-20 mins or until cooked throughout.
- STEP 8Leave to cool for 15-20 mins.
- STEP 9While it is cooling, make the icing by mixing the icing sugar and water together and, like the cake, as much cocoa powder as you want.
- STEP 10Once cooled, take the cake out of the tin and leave for a few mins before decorating.